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EAPN TOOL KIT: Engaging with the NAP Inclusion and the National Reports on Social Protection and Social Inclusion 2006-8: Light Year (2007)

EAPN position papers and reportsBy EAPN Europe Staff September 25, 2007

This tool kit is designed to help EAPN national networks engage with this “light year process”, specifically targeting action around the NAP inclusion, both at national and EU level and to provide supporting information that will enable networks to contribute to the questionnaire which will form the basis of the EAPN EU Report on Social Inclusion and Poverty 2007.

EAPN intervenes in Caritas Europa Event – Growing Crisis in Europe – is the EU capable of an effective response?

EAPN NewsBy EAPN Europe Staff February 22, 2013

On 21/02 – Caritas held a significant event in the EESC showcasing the main findings and recommendations of the Caritas Europa Shadow Report on Europe 2020 strategy and the Crisis Monitoring report in Portugal, Italy, Ireland, Spain and Greece. EAPN intervened in the panel chaired by Pierre Baussand, Director of Soial Platform on how the EU can stimulate inclusive growth the European Semester, together with Egbert Holthuis, European Commission, Veronica Lope Fontagné, EPP Rapporteur on the Opinion on the AGS 2013, and Robert Urbé, Policy Coordinator, Caritas Luxembourg. A debate was held at the end of the day on whether the EU is adopting an effective response to the crisis.

The Poverty Alliance (EAPN Scotland): Fighting austerity across Europe

EAPN National Networks NewsBy EAPN Europe Staff June 27, 2011

{jathumbnail}This spring/summer issue of the Scottish Anti-Poverty Review gives an insight of austerity measures throughout Europe, of their consequences on people and on the possible alternatives that could have been and should still be chosen, calling for a new approach.

EAPN’s letter to the EU Ministers of Employment and Social Affairs on the Flexicurity common principles

EAPN position papers and reportsBy EAPN Europe Staff October 2, 2007

At a time when the common principles on Flexicurity to be adopted by the Council on Employment, Social Policy, Health and Consumer Affairs in December are being elaborated, EAPN calls on the EU Employment Ministers to make Flexicurity deliver the social cohesion citizens are expecting.

Fintan Farrell’s interview on poverty and inequality – the paradox of democracies

EAPN NewsBy EAPN Europe Staff March 4, 2013

22/02 – Fintan Farrell was interviewed at Conference on poverty and inequality – the paradox of democracies at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg.

Watch Fintan Farrell’s interview here #EAPN

EAPN Poland’s General Assembly

EAPN National Networks NewsBy EAPN Europe Staff June 6, 2011

12/05 – EAPN Poland held its General Assembly in Warsaw. On the same day, the Polish delegation of people experiencing poverty was going to Brussels for the 10^th European Meeting of People experiencing poverty, where they presented their messages.

EAPN REPORT: Light year, Hard work!

EAPN position papers and reportsBy EAPN Europe Staff October 17, 2007

In this report, EAPN have set out to evaluate progress made under the ‘light year’ of the Open Method of Coordination (OMC), and in particular on the National Action Plans…

EAPN Response to the Communication from the European Commission “Towards a European Charter on the Rights of Energy Consumers”

EAPN position papers and reportsBy EAPN Europe Staff October 3, 2007

This document sets out the EAPN’s response to the Communication highlighting possible elements for a future Charter on the Rights of Energy Consumers that the European Commission published following the opening up of Europe’s gas and electricity markets to competition on the 1st July.

EAPN inputs on Minimum Income: Green European Foundation Workshop on social consequences of the crisis

EAPN NewsBy EAPN Europe Staff February 22, 2013

22/02 – EAPN policy coordinator Sian Jones intervened in a capacity-building workshop on ‘A minimum income in the EU’ as part of the Green European Foundation workshop on the social consequences of the crises – analysis and proposals.

Solidarités Nouvelles face au chômage (Member of EAPN France) new publication: Défendre l’emploi de ceux et celles qui n’en ont pas

EAPN National Networks NewsBy EAPN Europe Staff June 6, 2011

{jathumbnail}This publication, entitled “Defend the jobs of those who have none“ (but in French only), was issued by Solidarités Nouvelles face au chômage (SNC) and tells 25 years of participation in the public debate on the topic of employment.

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